Work

wSrk, v. [worked (werkt) or wrought (rawt), working.] To exert one's self for a purpose to labor, be engaged in the performance of * task, duty, etc. to operate, act, perform to be effective, have effect or influence to carry on busine , be customarily engaged or employed, toil; to be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to move heavily, strain, labor to make one's way slowly and with difficulty to proceed with effort to ferment, as a liquid to act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic— v. To labor or operate upon; to prepare for use, or utilize by labor to produce or form by labor to accomplish, effect to produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously to influence by acting upon to manage, linger or ink, then, bowboir, chair, get.